Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-06-16
Gathered From Our Exchanges.

Gathered From Our Exchanges.
Earnest Zimmerman of Niles was killed
by the cars the other day.
Members of the legislature visited De
troit in body on the 18th inst.
The Flint wagon works were damaged
by fire the other morning to the extent of
$50, 900.
Chester Parsons of Saline, one of the
oldest and most respected pion GERS in that
section, is dead.
Sheriff Bishop of Kent county, has gone
west in search of the rascally Judge of
Probate Follett.
Nelson Niles of Lapeer has fallen heir
to an estate of SIS, 200 by the death of an
uncle at Syracuse, N. Y.
Alden Whitcomb of Byron township,
aged 81 years, was instantly killed by a
kick from a colt the other day.
Burglars entered the residence of w.
w. Lee at Big Rapids the other night and
secured $500 worth of jewelry, etc.
John Patton of Olivet fell from his
horse and the animal stepped on him,
crushing in his left lung. He died in two
hours.
A Midland saloonist named Hensel has
been mulcted in S44 fine and costs, with
ten days in Jail on top of it for selling
liquor to boy.
The somewhat noted w. V. Rork, teach
er, preacher and lecturer, has gone to
Washington Territory to try growing up
with the country.
Frank Monohan, aged so, was run over
~ train nm, tha Flint g Para Marnnattn
railroad in East Saginaw the other morn
ing and was cut to pieces.
President Willis of the state agricul-
tural college delivered the commencement
address before the students of the Kansas
state agricultural college at Manhattan.
The jury in the case of Dr. Wier, ac-
cused of the murder of Mable Clark at his
hospital in Au Sable, failed to agree, stand
ing seven for acQuittal and five for con-
viction.
Mrs. Annice Boyd of Rockford, who re-
ceved verdict of SO, 500 for the loss of
her husband, drunkard and murderer, has
accepted the $3.50 fixed by Judge Mont
gomery.
A brood mare, with young colt at her
side, OH the farm of James Turner, near
Mason, seized Mrs. John Cox, who had en-
tered the barn for eggs, and tore out her
right ear.
James w. Pugsley of Battle Creek, over
whose head the charge of perjury has been
hanging for several years, has been con-
victed and sentenced to 10 years in Jack
son prison.
Hon. II. ID. Gilbert has been a resident
of Grand Rapids So years. On the SD an
niversary of his arrival there he celebrated
the event by entertaining number of the
cid settlers at dinner.
The administrator of the estate of Adam
Fisk of Marquette, who was killed by the
Marquette, Houghton q OntonagOn cars,
brought suit against the company and has
been awarded $4,000 damages.
Bird, the Coldwater man, charged by
Cole with conspiring to kill Thomas, has
been discharged; Cole himself has been
sent to Jackson to serve seven years, and
thus the great conspiracy is ended.
Several weeks ago John M. Blair, 76
years old, living near Vicksburg, was ter
ribly burned by falling into brush heap
which he had fired. He suffered intense
agony until death relieved him on the 10th
inst
Henry Cornwell, formerly of Hartland,
who skipped the country short time ago
and left numerous creditors behind in
Livingston and Shiawassee counties, has
been captured in Louisiana and brought
back.
The Quincy rock house, drum and
machinery at the head of the Quincy tram
in Hancock was destroyed by fire on the
Sth inst, causing loss of $50, 200. Five
htnArad M will Ea M nf ~
for 90 days.
The salt product for May was: Saginaw
county, So, 912 barrels; Bay, 1884; Man
istee, 1851; Huron, 10, 367; st. Clair,
16,547! I0sco, As, 147; Mason, Is, 594; Mid
land, 2S,66S; Gratiot, 605-a total of 277,-
905 barrels.
A temperance rally will take place at
Eaton Rapids July 4-6. 1t will be adj
dressed by exGov. st. John, Sam. Small,
Geo. w. Balm, Col. John Sobieski, A. A.
Hopkins the Rev. G. S. Mead, Rollo K
Bryan, Albert Griffin and others.
The Michigan Central has been having
a heated controversy with the state agri-
cultural society over the question of re-
duced fares and freight rates for the state
fair. 1t has finally resulted in allowing
the same rates as in former years.
William Cogoash and Tom Price, two
Chippewa Indians of Mt. Pleasant, while
under the influence of liquor, quarreled
the other day, and Price struck Cogoash
twice on the head with a club, inflcting
injuries which resulted in his death the
next day.
Arson Luce, an engineer, was killed on
Deming's logging railroad near Kalama-
zoo recently, and his employers have
decided the widow eighty acres of land, all
improved and with good buildings thereon,
as an evidence of the esteem in which
they held her husband.
Three men were coming up in skip in
the Huron mine at Houghton the other
evening when another attempted to get
into the skip, when it turned backwards
and all four were hurled to the bottom of
the shaft and were all instantly killed
They were horribly mangled.
Lightning played havoc with property
near Buchanan the other day. 1t struck a
shed containing Mr.. G. s. Blacks tools,
burning IL; struck and killed four cows in
the pasture for ii. q. Samson, and struck
Chas. Il. IlOwe's horse barn and made
IA of his horses as deaf as posts.
A railroad meeting was held the other
night at the city hall in Grand Ledge, and
the plaeq will rive substantial aid In the